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The Benny Goodman Story is a 1956 American musical biographical film starring Steve Allen and Donna Reed, written and directed by Valentine Davies, and released by Universal-International. The film was intended as a follow-up to Universal's 1954 hit The Glenn Miller Story , dramatizing a popular bandleader's life.
Benjamin David Goodman (May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986) was an American clarinetist and bandleader, known as the "King of Swing". His orchestra did phenomenally well commercially.
Jon Hancock: " Benny Goodman – 'The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert' ". ISBN 0-95-624040-2, Prancing Fish Publishing (May 2009) Irving Kolodin: Liner Notes (Benny Goodman – Carnegie Hall Concert) Catherine Tackley: 'Benny Goodman's Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert', Oxford: Oxford University Press 2013 ISBN 978-0-19-539831-1
In the 1950s, Krupa returned to Hollywood to appear in the films The Glenn Miller Story and The Benny Goodman Story. In 1959, the movie biography The Gene Krupa Story was released; Sal Mineo portrayed Krupa, and the film included cameos by Anita O'Day and Red Nichols. [6]
Valentine Loewi Davies (August 25, 1905 – July 23, 1961) was an American film and television writer, producer, and director. His film credits included Miracle on 34th Street (1947), Chicken Every Sunday (1949), It Happens Every Spring (1949), The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954), and The Benny Goodman Story (1955).
Goodman used "Let's Dance" as an opening for almost all of his performances, eventually becoming his official theme song. [1] The song was composed by Gregory Stone and Joseph Bonime, with lyrics written by Fanny May Baldridge. Goodman never recorded the theme with the lyrics, although The Modernaires recorded it in a tribute to him in 1954. [2]
The story even includes a pun about a sparrow, which served as a euphemism for female genitals. The story, which predates the Grimms' by nearly two centuries, actually uses the phrase "the sauce of Love." The Grimms didn't just shy away from the feminine details of sex, their telling of the stories repeatedly highlight violent acts against women.
Yaged served as a consultant on Benny Goodman's musical style for the 1956 film, The Benny Goodman Story. From 1996–97, he worked under the musical direction of bandleader Jack Vartan at the Stony Hill Inn, Bergen County, New Jersey .
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